Dr. Robin O'Neil

July 27, 2010


Robin and Susan will be discussing the story behind the story of his soon to be released work, "Oskar Schindler: Stepping Stone to Life". Schindler's name became a household name when film producer/director Steven Spielberg brought "Schindler's List" to the big screen.

Robin has worked on the Schindler story off and on since 1987. He took on many tasks in the intervening years, meeting people central to the story during his travels in Europe and Israel and the United States, investigating numerous leads, reading published and unpublished materials, questioning, observing, writing, and always taking notes and filing them away. “Oskar Schindler: Stepping Stone to Life” is the definitive work on Oskar Schindler. O’Neil examines the enigmatic Schindler, using all published and unpublished research to take the reader through all the evidence to the surprising conclusion.

Author, publisher and investigator of Nazi war crimes in Poland, Dr. Robin O’Neil is a former police major crimes investigator who worked at the cutting edge of major criminal investigations in the United Kingdom and Central Europe. Formerly of Scotland Yard, the Metropolitan and Home Counties Police service, he then took up the challenge of academia. After obtaining his Master’s and Doctorate with the Hebrew and Jewish Department, University College London, he now specializes in Nazi war crimes and the destruction of the European Jewish communities (1933-1945).


A Russian speaker, he has pursued his work to the Baltic States and former USSR. He has launched a number of major investigations into the perpetrators of the Holocaust, particularly those individuals who carried out and engineered the destruction of European Jewry in Lithuania and Poland. His past police service and rank enable him to look closely into the characters of the SS and death camp commandants of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka.

Dr. O’Neil is universally acknowledged as the central research source for the Schindler story. A historical consultant to several TV documentaries and radio broadcasts in the UK and abroad, he is an honored guest of Schindler’s home town, Svitavy in the Czech Republic, and is a regular lecturer at universities in the United Kingdom, United States, Israel and Eastern Europe. In his spare time and to counteract the intensity of Holocaust research he diversifies his interests into the Habsburg dynasty of nineteenth century Vienna and Shakespeare’s England. He is currently engaged in researching the Paston family correspondence from Norfolk 1420-1510 and associated English texts of that time.
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